Cost Modelling for Energy Efficient Window Replacements
This paper detailed data collection and cost-modeling efforts to understand the hardware and non-hardware (soft) cost of residential, energy efficient window replacements. NREL created a bottom-up cost model that details costs associated with window materials, installation labor, company overhead, and administrative costs. NREL did not find a single cost area for improvement but observed several non-cost barriers to increased window replacements. The non-cost barriers associated with window replacements are consumer education, lack of communication of the value of window replacement to consumers, and difficulty for consumers to identify quality products and installation.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1507690
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/TP-6A50-70967
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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